Rockstar's pumped out new Red Dead Redemption 2 details, this time giving a brief overview of hunting and fishing. There are a few new screenshots, too, so we've embedded them throughout the article.

It goes without saying, but hunting is going to be a key component of Red Dead Redemption 2. By tracking down animals and killing them, you'll be rewarded with skins and meat. You can sell your bits and pieces at general stores or to butchers, with high quality goods netting your more cash. If that feels like a bit of a waste, you can instead donate them to your outlaw camp so that your allies remain well fed.

Fishing appears to work in a similar way. Apparently different fish will chomp at different bait, so it pays to be prepared. Much like hunting, you can acquire materials and meat from fishing. It should provide a relaxing little diversion after a long day of killing things.

Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.

I never got into hunting in the first game, but if the game-world is really nice and there's a good reason to collect money (i.e. lots of cool stuff to buy), I might enjoy this stuff. In the first game there just wasn't much to spend your money on, so there wasn't enough reason to hunt. Besides, doing the bounties were more fun anyway.

@LaNooch1978 Never hunted a single animal in any of the Tomb Raider reboots, beyond the one deer that you're required to for story progression at the beginning of the first game (and that really made me feel uncomfortable, although I guess that was kinda the point of the scene).

I'll kill animals that are trying to kill my character, but I'm never completely comfortable with doing so. Specifically regarding Tomb Raider, yes, I'm a big fan, but that doesn't mean I have to love every single element of every single game in the franchise, and the hunting focus has been pretty much exclusive to the reboot trilogy. Thankfully, you can play them completely self-defensively and get most of the resources they provide elsewhere in the games.

Played the first Red Dead earlier in the year. Didn't like the hunting in that, but story-wise it was a relatively minor objective in a couple missions. If it's gonna be anything more than that, and if it's an essential component of gameplay for story progression, then I'm okay giving the sequel a miss.

@RogerRoger I love animals and I'm a vegetarian but shooting their digital counterparts doesn't have any moral qualms for me. You are going to be missing on out on a potential classic,the almost certain GOTY and all the surrounding conversation. But whatever,dude.

@LaNooch1978 Thanks for the concern, but I'll be okay. It's probably got something to do with having pulled too many triggers for real. I hope you and everybody else enjoys the game, and that it lives up to the hype, because that'd really be something!

I'll just add it to the list of every single other Rockstar game I've never played, which... well, which is everything they've ever developed, minus Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire Remastered. Oh, and half an hour of a PS2 GTA game. Might've been San Andreas.

It's not like there's a shortage of other games to play between now and Christmas, is it?!

I'm fine with hunting/fishing, just as long as you don't have to do it all the time to keep your outlaw camp alive. I enjoyed Fallout 4's settlements; bur the settlers completely lacked self-sufficiency. I don't want the outlaws being similarly high-maintenance, lazy and ungrateful..